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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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I had to steal to survive.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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